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About Me

I enjoy collecting antique quilts and making reproductions of them both big and small. I've made a few baskets and I'd like to make more. I dabble in knitting and would love to learn rug hooking, but it's hard to find time to do it all. I work in higher education and I love my job. However, I do spend a lot of time dreaming about quilts.

1857 Album Quilt - BOM

Glorious Applique

Wednesday, March 10, 2010

There is more!

This is the first quilt you encounter when you enter Mary's home. Don't you love the bench she has in front of it? Since her home (an old restored church) has an open plan, you can also see this work of art from her second floor office. What an inspiration!

This old broderie perse beauty is starting to crumble but the workmanship is exquisite. The stitches are so close it is hard to tell from any distance that it is broderie perse. Below is a close-up so you can appreciate the stitching.

Here is another great example of applique. Aren't those colors still amazing?

As you know, Mary has designed reproduction fabrics for several different companies. This is a close up of a quilt that is full of ideas for her. I just love old quilts that contain loads of different fabrics.

Here is another source of inspiration. I think there are something like a gazillion pieces--or maybe it was just something over 7,000. I had tabled my 30's triangles quilt because I was really tired of making triangles. Do you think this quilter ever tired of them?

Again, here is a detail of the triangles quilt. I just love the border on this one. She really stuck in there by making her four color border out of MORE triangles instead of copping out and adding solid stripes. Three cheers!

Are you quite sure this isn't heaven?? It looks like it is!!!! Am doint nothing but sigh, sigh, sigh!! All the qulits are fabulous. Thanks so much for the pictures! Have a nice day! Hugs, Daniëlle PS I will be posting an update on my AQ today hihi!